Now after years of painstaking collaborative work with the university’s Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory (CHIL), ...

New research suggests that women were the scribes of at least 1.1 percent of manuscripts in the Latin West between 400 and ...

A team at the University of Bergen in Norway have determined that a minimum of 1.1% of medieval manuscripts from around 800 ...

Dozens of unique, centuries-old manuscripts have gone on display, showcasing medieval ideas of how to cure disease and live a ...

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

Why medieval couples thought weasel testicles could cure infertility - It wasn’t merely superstition or ‘blind ...

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Dr James Freeman, the exhibition's curator, said: 'The remedies in these manuscripts take you to the medieval bedside and reveal the strange and surprising things that physicians and healers tried ...

One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...

For centuries, an intriguing sequel to the tale of Merlin has sat unseen within the bindings of an Elizabethan register.

Despite the upheaval in that era, Medieval Russians went about their business, and bored kids, including one named Onfim, ...